One reason the majority of movies based on video games have failed is because their filmmakers didn’t understand how to translate the appeal of the game to the relatively-limited storytelling ability of film.

Sebastian Hansen, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks and Jennifer Coolidge also star in the story of four strangers who must find their way back home after being pulled into a cubic wonderland created by a doorknob salesman.

If there’s an acting task Jack Black is most qualified for, it’s probably playing a video game character. One of the first jobs the funnyman booked was starring in an ad for Activision’s Pitfall! game in the 1980s.

He's a little bit heavy metal, a little bit Tasmanian devil, and the style of high-energy comedy he's perfected over the last 30-plus years has made Jack Black one of Hollywood's biggest stars. Gen-Xers and Millennials love him for his roles in "High Fidelity" and "School of Rock" and as the front man for comic rock band Tenacious D,

Jack Black leads the merry way in “A Minecraft Movie,” the first film adapted from the world’s bestselling video game which opens globally Friday.